Original caption: JEWS OF THE U.S. WHO HAVE DISTRIBUTED TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS OF THE RELIEF MONEYS RAISED BY AMERICAN JEWRY SINCE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD WAR.
Leaders of American Jewry gathered at Council table of the joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, in the heart of the N.Y. financial district. Here is represented every shade and faction of Jewry in America brought together in one common purpose for the first time in history.
(For names and further information see reverse side)
Seated from left to right are: Felix M. Warburg, of Kuhn Loeb & Co., Chairman of the Committee: Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum Corresponding Secy., of the Joint Distribution Committee: Mrs. F. Friedman, official stenographer: Dr. Boris D. Bogen of Cincinnati, organizer of the branch of the Committee in Holland and a director of the National Conference of Charities: Leon Saunders, President of the Independent Order of Brith Abraham: Harry Fischel, treasurer of the Central Relief Comm.: Sholem Asch, noted Yiddish writer a vice chairman of the People's Relief Comm.: Alexander Kahn, chairman of the People's Relief Committee: Jacob Milch: Miss Harriet Lowenstein woman lawyer [and one of the few women certified Public Accountants of N.Y. State,] Comptroller of the Joint Distribution Comm.: Colonel Moses Schoenberg of St. Louis: Rabbi M. Z. Margolies, president of the Agudas Habonim: Prof. Israel Friedlander, of the Jewish Theological Seminary in N.Y.: Paul Baerwald, Associate Treasurer of the Committee member of the firm of Lazard Freres: Julius Levy of Baltimore: Peter Wiernik, chairman of the Central Relief Comm. editor of the Jewish Morning Journal, N.Y.: Meyer Gillis, assistant Editor of Forward, N.Y.: Colonel Harry Cutler of Providence, Chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board, U.S. Army and Navy: Cyrus Adler president of Dropsey College, Philadelphia and of the Jewish Theological Seminary, N.Y. chairman of the American Jewish Relief Committee of Phila.: Arthur Lehman treasurer of the Committee, member of the firm of Lehman Bros. , bankers, N.Y. : Jacob H. Schiff, philantropist [philanthropist] and international banker.
Standing, left to right: Abraham Zucker of the Peoples Relief Committee: Isadore Hershfield who visited the war zones at the outbreak of the war to establish communication between Jewish families in Europe and America: Rabbi Meyer Berlin, Vice president of the Central Relief Committee: Stanley Bero of the Central Relief Committee: Louis Topkis of Wilmington, Dela.: Morris Engelman, financial secretary of the Central Relief Committee and who was the originator of the plan for American Relief for the Jewish War Sufferers.
8/6/18.
